Best sounding road car v12?

Best sounding road car v12?

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Zwoelf

25,867 posts

206 months

Friday 14th October 2011
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MikeATD said:
I heard an f50 for the first time yesterday. The noise was absolutely fantastic. Not only the quality of the noise but the speed the revs rise and dropped helped it even more. Of all the v12's mentioned in this thread, most are road car engines with good exhausts. The f50 is formula 1 engined modified for the road. Awesome!!
I may be wrong, but I think the McLaren F1's BMW V12 is free of flywheel effect so the revs rise quickly and drop instantly in a similar manner, albeit without the same F1 provenance, amusingly given the name. Certainly sounds manic enough anyway and I'd love to hear one in the real sense rather than through video.

Mark34bn

826 posts

177 months

Friday 14th October 2011
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Not a road car but a lovely V12 noise! Ferrari 333SP
Engine start at 1:20
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtD9eci3yXE&fea...
Doesn't seem to make a lot of noise (probably different in the metal) but very responsive & modern sounding.

CraigyMc

16,409 posts

236 months

Saturday 15th October 2011
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Mark34bn said:
Not a road car but a lovely V12 noise! Ferrari 333SP
Engine start at 1:20
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtD9eci3yXE&fea...
Doesn't seem to make a lot of noise (probably different in the metal) but very responsive & modern sounding.
Basically the same engine as the F50, no?

Monty Python

4,812 posts

197 months

bazking69

8,620 posts

190 months

Saturday 15th October 2011
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Ferrari 550/575. That V12 shriek even sounded good in film on Bad Boys 2.